Services

Factory Identification and Evaluation

So now you’re looking for someone to make your product. Some questions to consider:

Where and how will you find the best manufacturer? How will you know that this manufacturer fully understands your specifications and requirements? How will you know that this factory is actually qualified and capable to maintain those standards over time? How can you be sure that this process will yield the results you desire?

HMI Group has been successfully executing this process since 1985 and can make sure that only the most qualified and capable factories are chosen to participate in the quotation process. HMI employees visit each potential manufacturer, conducting formal facility evaluations and interviewing key management and production personnel to ensure that all parties understand the project from the start.

RFQ Management and Quotations

Once a factory or group of factories has been qualified, the RFQ process can continue with confidence. Many tasks will need to be carried out to ensure a smooth quotation process. HMI Group works both day and night to ensure that these tasks are completed fully and to the advantage of our customers worldwide.

Critical tasks such as price negotiation, mailing and evaluation of product samples, clarification of drawings and specifications, discussions of manufacturing process details, daily interface with overseas engineers and project managers and many more details will need to be handled in a timely manner to keep things on track.

HMI Group will manage the RFQ process for you, ensuring that the quotations you receive are both dependable and realistic for the given project parameters.

On-Site Engineering Support

When your project requires tooling fixtures or dies of any kind to be developed, HMI Group will make this happen seamlessly. Whether you need a simple mold for plastic injection or die cast parts or a complicated multi-cavity or progressive die set made, HMI Group has the experience to get it done correctly and economically. Costs for such tooling will be included in the initial project quotation.

If you have a product that needs additional resources to develop fully, HMI Group can help. The winning combination of our varied engineering experience and well-established supplier base gives HMI Group a special advantage in these development type situations. Utilizing both our internal engineering staff and our factory sources, HMI Group can reduce development barriers and eliminate delays that help your product to get developed more efficiently and brought to market faster.

Production and Schedule Monitoring

HMI Group will ensure that your product stays on schedule and ships when you need it. Once the production process has begun, HMI Group will work closely with factory management to ensure that proper priority is placed on your products.

As your advocate, HMI Group will be directly involved in production scheduling, ensuring that sub-suppliers and production workers alike understand the urgency and timelines associated with your product’s completion schedule. If problems do crop up during production, HMI Group will work diligently to address these issues in a timely basis, proposing solutions and initiating actions to correct problems before they cause interruptions to supply.

Contract Assembly

Located in our Suzhou, PRC plant location, HMI Group has the ability to assemble your products before shipping them from China.

Contact your local HMI Group office for details on this service.

Quality Assurance and Final Inspection

High quality does not happen by accident. Any project that relies upon Quality being “inspected in” at the end of the production process is doomed to fail from the start.

To avoid this pitfall, HMI Group will plan for Quality in your products at every stage of the process. By understanding your needs and making sure that that the factory can carry them out properly, HMI Group will consistently deliver the high-quality products you need to compete in today’s marketplace. HMI Group in Asia is ISO 9001 certified as of June 2006.

As part of managing your overall Product Quality Plan, HMI Group will conduct thorough inspections and manage process control at the factory level without fail. When problems do arise, HMI will dig into the root causes and propose solutions that will minimize delivery interruptions.

Worldwide Logistics Support

Your goods are ready to ship from the factory. Now what? Just relax and let HMI Group take care of the shipping arrangements.

By sea, by courier or by air freight, our administrative offices worldwide are skilled in moving your freight where you need it and when you need it. Our strong relationships with freight forwarders and air freight companies around the globe ensure that you get the best service and best rates possible.

Whether you are purchasing your products FOB Factory and shipping directly to your location or purchasing FOB HMI Group Warehouse and participating in HMI Supply Chain Management program, all shipping arrangements will be handled seamlessly by HMI Group. Contact your local HMI Group office for details.

Total Supply Chain Inventory Management

Are you looking for a way to increase efficiency and reduce costs through reduction of on-hand inventory, more dependable production planning and reduced logistics and overhead costs? If so, HMI Group Total Supply Chain Inventory Management programs can help.

When you purchase your products from HMI Group, we handle the entire supply chain from start to finish. From seeking out and evaluating the original RFQ factories to full logistics support and warehousing and JIT delivery of the finished product, HMI Group handles every step of the procurement process for you.

Simply place a purchase order to your local HMI office and HMI Group does the rest.

Quality. Value. Close to home.

Contact your local HMI Group office to see how these programs can best work for you.

Customized and OEM promotional items

Whether it is a simple logo application or an entire custom OEM object, HMI can support you in the development of any customized promotional products based on your or our design.

HMI does not offer a stock of ready to customize standard products. We rather identify the right source in Asia, we coordinate sampling and production, we hold your customized items in stock in our warehouse ready for monthly dispatch.

Company

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HMI Group, together with its suppliers, manufacturers and sales representatives, seek to provide excellent customer service and satisfaction while continuously striving for high quality products and services with timely delivery to meet our customers requirements.

HMI was formed in 1985 by Russell Hitchcock and Peter Chworowsky in response to increasing demands by OEM customers for both high-quality and competitive pricing in the United States OEM component market. With one warehouse in Milwaukee, WI and one sourcing office in Taipei, Taiwan, Russ and Peter began the legacy of customer satisfaction that is the hallmark of HMI Group today.

From these humble beginnings, HMI Group has grown to include facilities in the USA, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Europe and Australia. HMI Group employees are composed of engineers, inspectors and marketing personnel that constantly seek new and better manufacturing facilities world-wide.

From the beginning, HMI Group has employed a unique and effective strategy toward Asian procurement that is focused primarily on our Customer’s needs and objectives. This focus has helped to make HMI group an indispensible partner to our customers and suppliers worldwide.

HMI Group ensures the quality of your products through comprehensive quality management programs and consistent application of those programs on a lot by lot basis.

HMI Group engineers are on the ground in each location to ensure that only the most capable, quality conscious and cost effective manufacturers are chosen to provide your components.

HMI Group engineers engage in an ongoing dialogue with you and the manufacturer to arrive at acceptable and achievable quality standards, and then develop these into customized formal on-line and pre-shipment inspection procedures. Final inspection procedures are based on current statistical standards as set by ISO 9001:2008, (Standard MIL-STD-105E / DIN ISO 2859-1).

HMI will thoroughly implement these procedures and if problems do arise, dig into the causes and recommend solutions that minimize delivery interruptions.

In addition to the extensive quality certification library of our supplier base, HMI Group has been ISO 9001 registered since April 2006. Please click the link below for a copy of our current certificate.

Update: We are pleased to announce that as of March 2011, the Corporate Headquarters of HMI Group in Mequon, WI USA has been granted
ISO 9001:2008 status.